All posts by Alphard Janus Mavros

I looked at the hand-drawn Black family tree, and both Headmaster Black and his disowned son are spelled Phineus, not Phineas. Thus, the tapestry in the film was not misspelled!

All the Blacks but Dorea had multiple children. The tapestry shows all Blacks unless blasted off. It is entirely possible that Dorea's son was an illegitimate child with Charlus Potter. If the Potters didn't want to take responsibility for the child, he would probably be a Black in name and disinherited Potter. So Araminta might have been Dorea's granddaughter. This might also explain her not being disowned for marrying into the "blood traitor" Potters like Cedrella Black was for marrying Septimus Weasley because she didn't marry Charlus. The possible scandal also probably ruined any marriage prospects for her being seen as "spoiled" by Charlus. It also adds to the explanation of why the wizarding world was surprised by Sirius's friendship with James Potter. Another possible reason is that Charlus was disowned and took his wife's surname.

A plotline for any future fanfics for anyone to use would be that Euphemia Potter, Harry's Paternal Grandmother, was the daughter of Ominis Gaunt and Anne Sallow (or an OFC).

Please share your thoughts on this theory: A member of the House of Gaunt was the one who cursed Nagini's ancestor with the Maledictus Blood Curse.

Kreacher was deathly loyal to the Blacks, and Sirius gave everything (The Black Estate) to Harry. It makes me think that the only way Sirius could make Harry his Heir is not because of him being Sirius's godson but because he was descended from one of the legitimate succession lines of Phineas Nigellus, specifically Belvina Burke nee Black. Belvina is known to have a daughter, and Burke is an Irish Clan; Euphemia would not have been a strange traditional name. Plus, Burke is mainly Irish, which would fit the Potters and Redheads trope; Ireland is noted to have the highest world percentage of red hair.

It would be incredibly ironic if Merope had been born on Valentine's Day of 1907.

The FIRST owner was Cadmus of House Peverell, and it is said that he killed himself to be with his one true love. I was reading the fanfic A Marauder's Plan by CatsAreCool, and an intriguing plotline was made that Cadmus threw himself and the stone into the very river where he got it from Death, and a Gaunt ancestor was the one to find it. It has led me to another more likely theory that Cadmus wrote up a Last Will and Testament before he died and willed the stone to his beloved's family, meaning that his bride was a Gaunt.

Throughout the seven books and eight movies, it is clear that Tom Marvolo Riddle, Lord Voldemort, absolutely despises Albus Dumbledore's Philosophy on Love. My theory is that Halloween/Samhain was not just chosen to signify Voldemort's ultimate triumph over Death and Prophecy but also Love. My theory is that James Potter and Lily Evans married Samhain in 1979. Thus, Voldemort used this day to signify that absolutely NOTHING: not Prophecy, not Death, and most certainly not the Power of Love , could stop him.

On June 13th of 1943, Tom Marvolo Riddle killed his First of Many Victims and created his First Horcrux with Myrtle's Murder.

Zoom forward a little over 38 years later to October 31st (Samhain) of 1981 and he is defeated (and severely crippled for over a decade) by the Sacrificial Protection of Lily Potter nee Evans. Zoom forward again by a little over 10 1/2 years and he is defeated again while being a parasite attached to Quirinus Quirrell by Lily's Sacrificial Protection boosted by the Blood Wards grudgingly due to Lily's Elder Sister, Petunia Dursley nee Evans. Zoom forward yet again by 16 1/2 years and his Total Defeat is assured by the deceit of Narcissa Malfoy nee Black. It seems "the Power the Dark Lord knows not" was not just a Mother's Love but also three Florally named women. Perhaps Destiny and the Three Fates also found irony in him being destroyed by three women (even if one was grudgingly done) named after flowers just like his first victim whose Murder fueled a Ritual which is an ABOMINATION against the Natural Order.

He-who-must-not-be-named becomes He-who-dies-from-floral-assassinations.

Has it ever occurred to anyone that the reason that Merope Gaunt probably used a love potion, supposedly Amortentia, on Tom Riddle was that there may have been a history of using this method to make sure the line was "pure" when the Gaunts went from outsourcing to other pureblood families for spouses to KEEPING it in the Family?

In the Potterverse, the blood pact has been alternately called a Troth or an Oath, but an old fanfic that was deleted popped into my head when thinking about a phrase said in Secrets of Dumbledore: "We were closer than brothers." It is implied that even when they were enemies, Gellert only ever saw Albus as his Equal. The blood pact seems to be Old Magic, and Magic itself is very unpredictable. Would it not be too much to assume that the Magic of a Blood Pact can be varied and that the one between Albus and Gellert was more than just between ex-lovers but rather between two Husbands/Spouses? It is also implied that even after defeating him in 1945 and before, they NEVER stopped loving each other. Was it a sign of a very strict marriage, and now that it has broken, a rather demanding divorce or perhaps even annulment?

Okay. Ignotus was born in 1214 and died in 1292. He had at least one Son in the last several years before his death since magic gives fertility quite the boost, and wizards are usually long-lived compared to those without magic. That Son ( who had been born in the early 1280s, at most) had Iolanthe Peverell, who married Hardwin Potter, the oldest son of Linfred of Stinchcombe.

Linfred was a 12TH CENTURY WIZARD means even if he was born in 1199, that means Iolanthe was born at least in the early 1300s, and thus Linfred had to have had his seven children REALLY LATE. The age gap between Iolanthe and Hardwin had to be huge, thus were the idea of them having extreme fertility because of their magic.

I have a few guesses:

1. Lily Evans as a muggle-born was maybe a descendant of a Gaunt or Peverell Squib.

I say this because it leaves the possibility that the Peverell Brothers were either Salazar Slytherin's Grandchildren or Great-Grandchildren ( to a certain degree).

2. James Potter was a Descendant of Slytherin through Ignotus Peverell or from one of the Potters marrying a Gaunt before they became crazy inbreeds and thus with Lily's new blood the Parselmouth blood trait was revived.

3. It was from Both Lily and James Ancestry... but may have still been a little dormant and the presence of the Horcrux for so long made it awaken.